Skein-dyeing machine.



No. 727.775. PATENTED MAY 12 W. H. FLETCHER. SKEIN DYEING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 67 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 12, 1903. I

PATENT OFFICE.

SKElN-DYEING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent 190,727,775, dated May 12, 1903.

Application filed September 6,1902. Serial No. 122,426. (Nomodell) Zr; all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, WILLIAM H. FLETCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at 136 Twelfth avenue, in the city of Paterson, county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Skein-Dyeing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the'accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to skei'n-dyeing, and has for its objects the following: the immersion into and the moving automatically of the skeins through the liquid; secondly, the removing of the goods from the dyeing liquid and placing the said goods in another box for the purpose of washing the same, if desired, and for the purpose of removing the skeins or placing them easily and quickly in the machine. 1 attain these objects by the mechanism, as illustrated, as follows:

Figure 1 represents two boxes or vats with a runway above forcarrying the goods from one box to the other. Fig. 2 is a side view of the mechanism in one'of the tubs. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2. of the skein-holderz' Fig. 5 is a side view showing the position of the skeins when in operation. Fig. 6 is a detail of the actuating device. Fig. 7 is a side view of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 shows a section of the chain and the rodholder. Fig. 9 is a plan of Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a section of the rod and the tube on which the skein rests. Fig. 11 is a plan of 10.

In the drawings, 1 represents the vats or boxes, one for holding thedyeing liquid and Fig. 4 is a plan top of the box when the actuating device is opera ting the machine and supports the skeins by means of the shafts 12, on which are secured sprocket-wheels 13, over whichpass a chain, as shown infFigs. 8 and 9, with links 32. The links which support the rods have an attachment 33 withan opening 37 on one side and a'hooked-shaped piece 34, pivoted at 35 and held in position by the spring 36. In the opposite link the plain piece 42 is all that is necessary, although both 'ofthe end supports of the rod can be the samei. e., with the hooked attachment. The .rod 38, which holds the tube 45 on which the skein hangs, has a head 39 and a collar 40 for the purpose of keeping it in place on the chain.

The actuating arrangement consists of a shaft 19, running across the end of the box, and secured in loose hearings to the same on this shaft there is a gear-wheel 18, which meshes in the gear-wheel 17 on the vshaft 12, on which the sprocket-wheels 13 are when the rails are resting in their proper position on the top of the box. On the shaft 19 there is also a ratchet-.wheel15, actuated by a pawl 59, secured to alever l6 and operated by said lever. On the same shaft 19 by the side of the ratchet-wheel 15 there is a pulleyl t, and

pressing against its face is a piece 21. This piecehas secured to it a stem 26, which is surrounded by a spring 25. This spring is.

between the said piece 21 and a threaded piece 27, through which the stem 26 passes.

Said threaded piece 27 screws into the threadby a rod 29, which connects with another lever 58, which revolves on a counter-shaft 57. The gear-wheel 18 is-secured firmly to the shaft 19. The ratchet-wheel15 and the pulley 14, on the hub of which there is acluteh 23, are loose on the same shaft 19. Over this hub the lever 16 is free and is held in ,place:

by a collar 31. The clutch 22 slides on a feather 30 on the shaft 19, and when thisis:

thrown in the clutch 23the machine is then started if the lever 16 is moving, which it is supposed to do constantly. The operation, if desired, may be direct by a belt, as shown in Fig. l.

The bar or rod 38 is inserted in its place by entering the one end in 42 and placing the part between the head and collar 40 in the V-shaped space at 37, and just pressing it the catch 34 slides open and admits the rod 38 and snaps back in place by means of the spring 36, thus securing the rod. In taking the rod out the catch is pressed down and the rod is released to facilitate the taking off of the skein. The rod 53 is for guiding the skeins away from the chain. On the rod 38 there is placed a triangular-shaped tube 45. The sides of this tube are depressed, as shown at 44. This is for the purpose of preventing the threads of the skein from adhering to the sides of the tube when the tube turns on the rod 38.

The object of having the tube turn is so that there will be no marks left 011 the goods by remaining in one place in contact and for the purpose of getting the whole skein immersed and acted on by the liquid. The operation is as follows: As the skein b,as shown in Fig. 5, is shown hanging from the tube on the rod 38, the corners of the tubes are indicated by numerals 46,47, and 48. This skein in passing around with the chain occupies the positions as shown, and this movement by the action of the skein dragging, 850., in moving causes the rod 38 to move from one corner of the triangle to another. For instance, as the skein 19 passes to the left and up over the sprocket-wheel 13 the vertex 46 has the rod in it until it reaches the position d, when the tube drops and the rod is in the vertex 47, and the skein passes on to the position 2, when the skein permits the tube to hang loosely on the rod, and so to positionf, and when the skein end drops to the position a the rod passes to the vertex 48, and the skein in passing fromfto a or c has moved from a position as shown by 46 in skein a to a position as indicated by 49 in skein c, and so on. The skein gainsin each revolution, and to prevent the tendency of the threads winding around the tube the tube has the sides pressed in.

The object of the arrangement as shown in Figs. 6 and 7 is to give the goods at back-andforward movement, if necessary. When the lever 29 raises the lever 16, the pawl 59 moves the ratchet-wheel 15say,forexample,almost two ratchets or teethand in the backward movement of the lever 16 the friction of the piece 21, pressing on the rim of the pulley 14, carries the pulley and the ratchet-wheel back with it until the pawl 20 catches a tooth of the ratchet-wheel, in which case the piece 21 slips the remainder of the distance made by the lever 16. Thus in each stroke of the lever 16 the ratchet-wheel, and consequently the whole machine, moves forward nearly two teeth and backward nearly one, gaining one tooth. This can be regulated to suit the requirements by lengthening or shortening the position of the rod connections on the levers 16 or 58.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1. In a skein'dyeing machine operated in an oscillating manner by means of a lever, a pulley and a gear the lever 16, the spring 25 on the rod 26, piece 21 acting on the face of the pulley, the pawl 59 acting on the ratchetwheel, the pawl 20 to hold said ratchet-wheel, and the ratchet-wheel pulley and gear 18 on the shaft, said gearlS meshing in the gear 17 as and for the purpose of operatingthe skeins in the dyeing-bath as set forth and described in the annexed drawings and specification.

2. In a skcin-dyeing machine the combination between the actuating device consisting of a lever, pawls 59 and 20, the pulley with the piece 2lacting on it the ratchet-wheel and gear 18 and the rails resting on the top of the box, the shafts and sprocket-gears on the same, the chain carrying the rods, the tubes on said rods and a vat containing the liquid as set forth and described.

3. In a dyeing-machine the chain with altachments so arranged as to receive the rods, the catch 34, the spring 36, the depressedsided tube having three or more sides all in connection with chains passingover sprocketwheels as set forth and described.

4. In a dyeingmachine the combination between two rails 11, the shafts 12 and sprocket-wheels on said shafts, chains connecting said sprocket-wheels, rods and tubes in connection with a device for raising the above-mentioned rails, chains, wheels, rods and tubes, and the traveler 3 and runway 2 for-the purpose of conveying the goods from one box to another, and a dye-box having an actuating device in connection with another box also having an operating device as set forth and described in the annexed drawings and specification.

5. In a skein-dyeing machine the combination between a tube loosely supported on a rod, the rod having a head and collar for holding the same in place, the attachment on the chain 33 with the side opening, the catch 34 and the spring 36, and a chain passing over sprocket-wheels, sprocket-wheels, shaft, dyebox and an actuating device consisting of a gear, ratchet-wheel, pulley-lever, pawl, and afriction-piece 21 as set forth and described.

Signed at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, this 21st day of August, A. D. 1902. l v

WILLIAM H. FLETCHER.

\Vitnesses:

HARRY S. DAY, JOHN F. TAYLOR.

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